James Bond’s Swan Song: Reflections on the Daniel Craig Era

To say Brian De Palma is a master of obsession is an understatement. For more than fifty years, he’s demonstrated his skill as one of the best American filmmakers by creating works steeped in paranoia and abound with suspenseful sequences that would have made Hitchcock sweat. His films, while often revolving around characters driven by…

A portrait of disaffected, disillusioned young people who can barely imagine their future beyond the next morning, Made in Hong Kong was the first independent film to be released in Hong Kong following the handover in 1997. It is all too fitting that a new 4K restoration of the film is being released by Metrograph…

Ninja Thyberg‘s feature directorial debut, Pleasure, is the kind of cinematic experience that shakes you at your core in a way that only good filmmaking is able to do. With a breakout performance from newcomer, Sofia Kappel, the film uses the adult entertainment industry as a vessel to explore society’s often fractured understanding of ambition…

“It’s not our responsibility.” “Then who’s is it?!” Quiver Distribution has revealed an official US trailer for an indie thriller titled Crisis, set around the opioid drug crisis. Crisis features three interwoven stories that highlight the greed, violence and tragedy of the drug war. A drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation, an architect…

“Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words” disappeared from Amazon’s streaming shelves mere days into Black History Month. The 2020 documentary let the reserved legal mind narrate his own life story, a tale taking him from an impoverished childhood in the segregated South to decades on the Supreme Court. Read moreA Guide to The…

Character actor James Le Gros (Drugstore Cowboy) grizzles his soft-spoken persona for Nick Frangione‘s semi-autobiographical feature, Buck Run. Set in the woodlands of Pennsylvania, the story follows Shaw Templeton (Nolan Lyons) in the wake of his mother’s death. Unable to comprehend the loss, he lives with the corpse for nearly two days before he is sent to live with…